GIRLS ACADEMY QUARTERLY

July 2019

GIRLS ACADEMY QUARTERLY

Shaping tomorrow’s leaders at the Summit

Welcome to the July edition of the Girls Academy Quarterly. It has been an eventful few months with our newest Academy, Swan View Senior High School, now fully operational and settling in to their Academy room. Swan View Girls Academy has started with 46 student enrolments, only four students off their target. The girls are in good hands with Kellie Tucker (Program Manager) and Lizel Buckley (Development Officer) running the program there.

INTRODUCING OUR NEW GENERAL MANAGERS (OPERATIONS)It is with great pride and pleasure that I announce two recent promotions in the Girls Academy team. Narelle Henry and Renee Crilly have both been promoted from Regional Manager roles to General Manager (Operations West) and General Manager (Operations East) respectively. Narelle Henry is a Noongar woman from Perth who has a long association with Girls Academy. She is a strong leader and mentor for both staff and girls and I know will do an outstanding job in her new role. As a Regional Manager, Renee guided our extremely successful Queensland expansion. Girls Academy is incredibly fortunate to have both women on our team and I look forward to what the future brings with Narelle and Renee heading the Operations side of our organisation.

Ricky GraceCEO & FounderGirls Academy

YEAR 12 SUMMITOur Year 12 Summit was a great success this year. In only its second year, the three-day conference was held in Sydney with 180 of our students in attendance – nearly double the number from 2018. The Year 12 Summit celebrates our students nearly reaching the end of their schooling and overcoming all manner of obstacles. It is also an opportunity to connect with other girls, potential employers and learn about other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures from a region other than theirs. Highlights include the Careers Expo, the Gala Dinner and cultural tours on the first day.

WELCOME TO NEW PARTNERSI would like to welcome our newest supporters since our last Quarterly. We are in the process of welcoming quite a few partners of all shapes and sizes. Without their support, we simply would not be able to deliver our program around the country. I will have more announcements on this soon.

OUR POST-SCHOOL OPTIONS TEAM IS GROWINGAs more of our students succeed in finishing their schooling, we now have a need for a bigger team to support their transition to post-school options. I would like to give a warm welcome to Kelly Winter and Maria Martin-Pederson as they settle in their new roles in the Post-School Options team.

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Girls Academy is Australia’s leading in-school mentoring program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander girls. The program has four key goals – increasing school attendance and engagement, improving graduation rates, encouraging personal and academic achievement, and facilitating planning for study and careers after high school.

Girls Academy is centred around a resourced Academy room on school grounds, staffed full-time by at least two mentors. Our staff deliver a comprehensive community-led program focused on mentoring; health, resilience and wellbeing; community leadership; and cultural connection.

SYDNEY SUMMIT IS A GREAT SUCCESSGirls Academy marked NAIDOC Week with a huge Girls Academy Year 12 Summit. 180 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander girls and young women gathered in Sydney for a life-changing experience.

Day 1 of the Summit got off to a great start with the girls hearing from some inspiring Aboriginal women including CEO of the Australian Indigenous Governance Institute Michelle Deshong, education icon Renee Phillips, NAIDOC’s 2018 Youth of the Year Tamina Pitt and Girls Academy graduate Tilly Davis. This was followed by the Beautiful Minds workshop and an amazing cultural tour with Tribal Warrior.

On Day 2 the huge Girls Academy Indigenous Careers Expo was launched by Aboriginal film legend Rachel Perkins (director of Jasper Jones, One Night The Moon, Mabo, Redfern Now, Radiance and Bran Nue Day, and founder of Blackfella Films). The Careers Expo was a great opportunity for students to explore study and career options from an amazing range of employers and educational institutions. Thank you to

all Year 12 Summit corporate sponsors. Without their support this event would not happen.

At the Celebrity Session afterwards the girls met and heard from a range of guests including Dunghutti model Samantha Harris.

That evening the Gala Dinner was a great way for the girls to celebrate their hard work and achievements so far this year, and it was hosted by Yolngu television presenter and producer Leila Gurruwiwi - star of the much-loved Marngrook Footy Show.

It was a fun finale on Day 3 as the girls headed to St Mary’s for a visit t the high ropes course, then a trip to the city centre for shopping and the Tower Eye, followed by a brilliant evening at the Sydney Opera House to see a performance by Bangarra Dance Theatre.

These students are the community leaders of the future, and Girls Academy is dedicated to helping them realise their amazing potential.


YEAR 12 SUMMIT


YEAR 12 SUMMIT

RECONCILIATION WEEKGirls Academy students across Australia marked Reconciliation Week. In Perth, Girrawheen, Swan View and Clontarf Academy students marched in the Walk for Reconciliation and featured in the local paper. Balga Academy students performed a traditional dance at Matagarup and attended a Reconciliation

Breakfast with the newly appointed Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt.

Coodanup, Tamworth and Oxley Girls Academies all played a prominent role in local Reconciliation events and took the opportunity to share their views with their local newspapers.


RECONCILIATION WEEK

WHAT RECONCILIATION MEANS TO ME

"Reconciliation is about truth, justice, healing & love. It is about Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people & other Australians coming together & acknowledging what has happened in the past."

Isabella Fernando, Year 10, Dubbo Delroy GA

“Reconciliation is about everyone coming together, putting differences aside as a community, as a nation and as a country. Building a strong connection as one.”

Tiarnie McBride, Year 12, Dubbo Senior GA


RECONCILIATION WEEK

KIARA STUDENTS PERFORM AT RECONCILIATION WEEK GATHERING Kiara Girls Academy delivered a wonderful performance at the Dandjoo Koorliny Reconciliation Gathering, held by the Town of Bassendean to celebrate this year’s Reconciliation Week theme: ‘Grounded in truth: Walk together with courage’. The dance performance featured in the Easter Reporter.

More than 300 students from local primary schools took part in language, storytelling and cooking workshops. Elder Allan Kickett, who opened the gathering with a Welcome to Country, urged students to open their hearts and come together with Aboriginal culture.

“Aboriginal culture is the oldest living culture in the world. In the old days, people lived harmoniously with each other and travelled across borders and territories where they shared their food, knowledge and tradition. This is the key of our living, which remains with us today.”

ACADEMY GRADUATES BLAZING TRAILS AT UWA Girls Academy alumni Nakaya Matsomoto and Mikayla Garstone graduated from Broome Senior High from in 2017 and have been reunited at the University of Western Australia.

Mikayla moved to Perth after high school to study psychology at UWA. She plans to work in Aboriginal mental health. She loved being in the Girls Academy because of the connection she had with the staff and the extra support the Academy gave her.

Nakaya completed a traineeship in Early Childhood in Broome when she finished high school and has begun at UWA this year. After her Aboriginal Orientation course she will complete a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in geography and history and then study to become a secondary teacher. Nakaya is thriving at university and enjoys the flexibility that university study affords her.


ACADEMY HIGHLIGHTS

URANGAN STUDENTS RUN FOR A REASONUrangan Girls Academy students went to Murgon and participated in the Reconciliation Fun Run raising money for the Ration Shed Museum. The students were accompanied by Urangan Program Manager Paula Chalmers and Development Officer Shawn Blucher, as well as Mark Staib from the PCYC.

Participants can either walk or run the 7 kilometres from Murgon to Cherbourg – congratulations to Year 12 student Vanessa Wilson who ran the entire course! Murgon and Cherbourg Girls Academy staff and students also participated. Destiny Sexton (Year 7) helped lead the warm up by doing the Nutbush!

The girls shared this wonderful experience with some Advisory Committee members, and enjoyed music from local Cherbourg residents and the Wakka Wakka dancers perform.

NEWTON MOORE GIRLS EXPLORE CAREER PATHWAYSYear 10 students from Newton Moore Girls Academy attended the huge Perth Convention Centre Careers Expo.

The next day they toured the WA Police Academy in Joondalup. The girls were shown around the Driver Training facility, student classrooms, firing range and taser practice rooms. They received talks and advice from several current Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cadets (including former Newton Moore Aboriginal and Islander Education Officer Slade Hayward).

The girls thoroughly enjoyed the tour, especially Aaliyah Thomas and Charity Rose Ryder who both have aspirations to join the Cadets after completing Year 12. The girls made an appearance in the South Western Times.


ACADEMY HIGHLIGHTS

TAMWORTH GIRLS CONNECTING WITH GAMILARAAY CULTUREThe Tamworth Girls Academy students had an “awesome cultural experience” at the Gamilaraay language and culture camp hosted by the Aboriginal Education Consultative Group at Lake Keepit, and featured in the Northern Daily Leader.

Students and staff from all parts of regional New South Wales participated in a range of activities delivered by strong cultural knowledge holders including: Dreamtime stories, song dance, artefact and message stick making and history, traditional bush tucker and medicine presentation, night sky stories and an astrology session, and language and learning to sing the Acknowledgement to Country in local Gamilaraay Language.

An extensive amount of knowledge was passed on in the two-day camp that will continue to be passed

on and practiced in the community. Girls Academy students loved the camp and felt they walked away with “a vast amount of knowledge to share with their peers”, said DO Kim Knox.

The highlight of the camp was learning to sing Acknowledgement to Country in local Gamilaraay Language.

SINGLETON STUDENTS HELP TO BRING ABORIGINAL ANCESTRAL REMAINS HOME TO COUNTRYSingleton Girls Academy students recently had the honour of painting one of three boxes used to bring Aboriginal ancestral remains home to Country. The remains had been held for many years at the University of Sydney and Australian Museum, and the Academy girls played a significant role in this important cultural event.

Local Wonnarua artist Debbie Becker worked with them to put their vision into a design which shows the Hunter Valley and Hunter River, and the 10-year journey and the people involved in returning the ancestors back to country.

Community and Wanaruah Aboriginal Land Council members travelled to Sydney and wrapped each set of remains in paperbark before placing them into the boxes and bringing them home.

Some of the Academy girls formed part of Singleton High School’s dance group Banda-ra, and danced prior to the remains being placed back into the earth, while others attended to witness the momentous occasion.


ACADEMY HIGHLIGHTS

KIARA STUDENT ARTIST DESIGNS NAIDOC JUMPER FOR WAFL WOMEN’S TEAMCongratulations to Maddison Alone from Kiara Girls Academy who designed this brilliant NAIDOC round jumper for the Swan Districts Women’s Football team in the WAFL! The players wore it proudly as they took on Subiaco at Bassendean Oval. Amazing design work!

ESPERANCE GIRLS ACADEMY STAFF RECOGNISED AS COMMUNITY PERSON OF THE YEAR DURING NAIDOCEsperance Development Officer Anna Bonney was honoured as the Community Person of the Year at the inaugural Esperance NAIDOC Ball, hosted by the Esperance Tjaltjraak Native Title Aboriginal Corporation. Ms Bonney, who drew with joint-winner Jennell Reynolds, was recognised for her great contribution to the Girls Academy program and Esperance Community Arts, advocating for Indigenous students, and embedding Aboriginal culture in Esperance high schools.

Girls Academy is incredibly proud of Anna’s outstanding work. She is a great mentor and role model for the community leaders of the future.

TAMINMIN RE-ENGAGEMENT CAMP BUILDS BRIDGES Taminmin Girls Academy held their first Re-Engagement Camp last quarter and the students had an amazing time. Seven members participated in the overnight camp at the Michael Long Learning & Leadership Centre, where Academy staff organised and ran various activities to develop relationships with students, introduce students to tools for better decision-making, and link students to inspiring role models.

There were many activities including workshops with Adam Drake (Balanced Choice Programme) on effective communication and listening with a range of activities that also promoted physical and mental health, and with Tradara Briscoe (Aboriginal Artist/ Designer and Girls Academy Alumni), who spoke with the girls about her career as successful Aboriginal Artist and Fashion Designer. Overall the camp was positive and students were completely engaged throughout.


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CLONTARF LEADERS RISE UPGirls Academy students at Clontarf elected a student leadership group who participated in a two-day leadership camp in Dunsborough to help develop their skills. The girls took part in leadership training, then immediately put the training to use by coming up with and planning programs for Girls Academy. They also established updated Clontarf Girls Academy rules and values. The camp was a great success: the students spoke up confidently about what they believe will help all the students within the Academy.

NARROMINE GIRLS ON TRACK FOR CAREERS IN HEALTH AND MEDICINE Narromine Girls Academy Year 11 and 12 students had a great experience in Dubbo with the Health Career Academy Program at the University of Sydney’s School of Rural Health.

The program, run by Kathryn Naden, left the girls buzzing with excitement and was jam-packed with meeting many inspiring people.

The students learned about diabetes prevention from Deb Beahan before walking to Dubbo Base Hospital where Aboriginal woman Jody Towney - the Project Support Officer - introduced the girls to Dr Randall Greenberg and Aboriginal woman Dr Kiahani Biles (originally from Dubbo, now back home after her studies).

At the University the students met nurse Raelene Hutchinson and Stephanie McDonnell (Allied Health) to work on clinical skills, and then headed to the Royal Flying Doctor Service, Dubbo base where Duty Operations Coordinator, Aboriginal woman Kellyann Johnson, introduced the girls to flight nurse Mark, who spoke to them about his career experiences.


ACADEMY HIGHLIGHTS

TAMINMIN ACADEMY GIRLS STAR IN NAIDOC CELEBRATIONSTaminmin Girls Academy was front and centre for the Taminmin College NAIDOC celebrations. The Academy Year 8s opened the day with a traditional Torres Strait Islander dance alongside the Humpty Doo Primary “Shake-a-leg” crew. The performances were followed by a Fashion Parade by Academy students, Academy siblings and additional volunteers from within the school including Assistant Principal Catherine Scott-Jones, an Academy parent and more Academy family and friends.

Academy members modelled garments designed by Lenore Dembski (Paperbark Woman), Gracie Designs NT, Linda Watson (Secret Platypus ) - who makes clothing with fabrics from Babbarra Women’s Centre in Maningrida Arnhem Land, and Tradara Briscoe. With support from Darwin NAIDOC Committee Member Nicole Brown, local Aboriginal-owned business DMKM Beauty Studio do the girls’ hair and makeup.

Tradara – a Palmerston Girls Academy graduate – is now a successful Aboriginal artist who combines 60,000 years of Australian Aboriginal culture into modern pieces, which showcases ancient stories and dreamings that have been passed down through generations. Tradara also hand-painted models’ faces for the fashion parade.

There were also demonstrations on basket weaving from Pudakul Cultural Tours, damper making, stakeholder stalls and much more, including Traditional Games on the oval, facilitated by Academy staff.

It was a fun day of events and well-received by students and staff. Well done to Aboriginal and Islander Education Worker Penny Kellaway and teacher Paul Tolliday on coordinating such a wonderful day of events.


ACADEMY HIGHLIGHTS

URANGAN GIRLS GET EQUIPPED WITH TOOLS FOR LIFE – LITERALLY Urangan Girls Academy students participated in the SALT Program (Supporting and Linking Tradeswomen) organised by Butchulla Aboriginal Corporation (BAC). Participants learned how to use tools and make a wooden caddy. The SALT workers told stories about how they ended up working in their respective trades and how they became SALT consultants and teachers. It was a great experience for the students who learnt a lot and had great fun doing it.

TAMINMIN GIRLS IN AMONGST THE ACTION AT THE ARAFURA Taminmin Girls Academy students volunteered for Arafura Games, held in Darwin, and had a great time while being very helpful.

The girls from Years 8 to 11 assisted in the beach volleyball games located on the waterfront. Their job was to help with the scoring and to stop the volleyballs from going into the water.


ACADEMY HIGHLIGHTS

INCREASED ATTENDANCEIncreasing school attendance is one of Girls Academy’s Big 4 Objectives and the most fundamental aim of our program. We’ve achieved so much over the past 15 years in this area and the first half of 2019 was no exception, with many highlights from across the country.

In the first two terms of this school year we have seen some outstanding performances in school attendance. At Melville Girls Academy, 84.6% of students attended more than 70% of the time. At Muswellbrook it was 88.33%, and at Oxley in Queensland, a stunning 96%!

Singleton had 87% of their students attending at better than 70%, and 82.2% were ‘shining bright’ - with attendance above 80%.

Bundaberg North’s Year 12s mean business, with an average attendance rate of 85.27%, and elsewhere in Queensland 91% of the Maryborough girls attended school at better than 70% of the time.

Newcomers Barambah saw an amazing average attendance of 87.3% from the Year 12 girls.

SURVEY REVEALS POST-SCHOOL SUCCESSEarlier this year we carried out a survey of the 2018 Year 12 Girls Academy students. Results showed that they are doing amazingly well, with 82% of the girls now at university or TAFE, or employed. Some are studying or training and working at the same time.

HITTING OUR GRADUATION TARGETSThe Year 12 students at Maryborough are on track to achieve 100 percent graduations in 2019, following in the footsteps of last year’s Year 12s, 100% of whom achieved graduation. At Dubbo Senior 24 out of 28 Year 12s are on track to graduate, great progress from a big Year 12 contingent. Elsewhere in New South Wales, 100% of the Year 12s at Melville, Canobolas and Narromine are on track to graduate. Hervey Bay in Queensland are also 100% on target to achieve graduation, and at Oxley – like Maryborough – the Girls Academy looks like hitting 100% graduation, just as it did in 2018!

BLAZING NEW TRAILS IN ACADEMIC AND EXTRA-CURRICULAR AREASGirls Academy students and graduates have been blazing new trails in 2019! Many graduates are studying a range of courses including medicine and law, and have big plans to use their qualifications and skills to help their communities.

Girls Academy students have been active in their communities, with Barambah girls participating in the Reconciliation fun run to raise money for the Ration Shed Museum in Murgon; a Kiara student designing a Reconciliation Round jumper for the WA Football League; Taminmin students volunteering to help at the Arafura Games; and Bundaberg North girls participating in the World’s Greatest Shave to raise $1,000 for leukaemia research.


ACHIEVING OUR ‘BIG 4’

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INCREASE SCHOOL ATTENDANCE

ADVANCE ACADEMIC AND PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENT

FACILITATE POST-SCHOOL TRANSITION PLANNING

IMPROVE YEAR 12 GRADUATION RATES

GIRLS ROCKING RESOURCES INSPIRE STEM CAREERSEleven students from Gunnedah Girls Academy were among a group of girls who recently participated in Girls Rocking Resources – a Bis and Whitehaven initiative – to gain an insight into what it is like to work in the resources sector.

Girls Rocking Resources focuses on career opportunities for women and included: hands-on STEM activities; site tours of the Bis depot and Whitehaven’s Tarrawonga mine; panel discussions with employees from both companies; and inspiring talks from young women working in the resources sector.

Gunnedah Girls Academy Development Officer Kylie Milsom told the Namoi Valley Independent newspaper that it was a great opportunity for the girls.

“It changed a lot of the girls’ minds and got them thinking outside that box, that anything is possible,” she said.

PARTNER VISIT TO OUR SINGLETON AND MUSWELLBROOK ACADEMIESSingleton and Muswellbrook Girls Academies welcomed a visit from Lydia Bissett, Indigenous Student Advisor, Moondani Toombadool Centre – Swinburne University of Technology, who dropped by to see our program in action.

Moondani Toombadool Centre cares about all things Indigenous at Swinburne. They exist to make sure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students have a range of study and lifestyle options, while staying connected to Country and community.

NSW GIRLS EXPERIENCE JAPANMuswellbrook and Gunnedah Girls Academy students got the chance to go on an educational trip to Japan, courtesy of Girls Academy supporter Idemitsu Kosan. The students told the Muswellbrook Chronicle about the journey.

Muswellbrook student Darbi Cox said the country was “really well-organised and clean”.

“I would really like to thank Idemitsu Kosan for the amazing opportunity to go to a different country and explore. This experience has made me want to change my career plans,” she said.

The girls visited many culturally and historically significant places, and had a professional networking opportunity at Idemitsu Kosan’s head office.


PARTNER NEWS

AN EYE-OPENING TRIP TO WA MINE SITE Cecil Andrews and Clontarf Girls Academies had an amazing experience on their tour of Rio Tinto Western Australia’s Hope Downs 4 mine site in Newman.

The visit included a trip around the HD4 village, lunch, an MEM Workshop visit and tours of the plant and the pit before flying back to Perth. The girls learned a lot about the complex operations of the project, and also about the wide range of career options at Rio Tinto.

Clontarf students Kirra-Mae Josephsen and Jasmine Ugle and Cecil Andrews students Aaliyah Dinah and

Tarnika Blurton were accompanied by Clontarf Girls Academy Development Officer Akim Lual and Cecil Andrews Development Officer Linda Little on the trip.

The girls were among 16 students on the visit (hosted by the GHD team at HD4) which Rio Tinto organised in collaboration with the Girls Academy, CSIRO STEM and The University of Western Australia Girls in Engineering.

BALGA GIRLS MEAN BUSINESS Planning for life after high school is a big part of the Girls Academy program. Balga Girls Academy welcomed visitors from Bis who spent an afternoon with the students discussing careers in mining and the best education and training pathways involved.

Bis apprentice Kim spoke with the girls about her work as a Heavy Diesel Fitter apprentice, and fielded a lot of questions from our enthusiastic students. Bis are a long-time partner of Girls Academy and we look forward to continuing to work together to help provide a bright future for the girls.


PARTNER NEWS

MADELEINE FOLLOWS DREAM TO TEACH NOONGAR LANGUAGE

TARLIE HAS ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A POLICE OFFICER

Girls Academy graduate Tarlie Bandy is on track to realise her childhood dream. Tarlie, who graduated from Derby District High School in Western Australia in 2011, is in the Aboriginal Cadet Program and was recently Perth completing block training at the WA Police Academy in Joondalup.

When she is not attending block training she is based at the Derby Police Station. Tarlie has wanted to be a police officer since she was a little girl, but as a mum of two, she waited until her kids were in school before joining up.

Madeleine Smith was a Year 12 in the Cecil Andrews Girls Academy last year and is following her dream to become a teacher of Noongar language.

Madeleine is completing Aboriginal language teacher training with the Department of Education and working as an Aboriginal and Islander Education Worker one day a week at Makybe Rise Primary School, and as an Educational Assistant and Noongar language teacher at Cecil Andrews College. This is something Madeleine has wanted to do since she was in Year 8.

Madeleine is passionate about teaching students about Aboriginal language and culture. She was a participant in the 2019 Perth Miss NAIDOC and is about to embark on the Yorga Djenna Bidi Aboriginal Women’s Leadership Course.


WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Palmerston(2 locations)Palmerston(2 locations)

Humpty DooHumpty Doo

Alice Springs(2 locations)Alice Springs(2 locations)

Bundaberg(3 locations)Bundaberg(3 locations)

Hervey Bay (2 locations)Maryborough (2 locations)

KununurraKununurraDerbyDerby

BroomeBroome

RoebourneRoebourneKarrathaKarratha

MandurahMandurahBunburyBunbury

EsperanceEsperance

Kalgoorlie(2 locations)Kalgoorlie(2 locations)

CoonambleCoonamble

Tamworth(2 locations)Tamworth(2 locations)GunnedahGunnedah

MuswellbrookMuswellbrookDubbo

(3 locations)Dubbo

(3 locations)SingletonSingleton

Kempsey(2 locations)Kempsey(2 locations)

NarromineNarromine

OrangeOrange

Torres Strait

Geraldton

Barambah(2 locations)

Perth (8 locations)

*Locations as of January 2019


PROGRAM LOCATIONS

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Broome Broome Senior High SchoolBunbury Newton Moore Senior High SchoolDerby Derby District High SchoolEsperance Esperance Senior High SchoolGeraldton Geraldton Senior CollegeKalgoorlie Eastern Goldfields College Kalgoorlie Boulder Senior High SchoolKarratha Karratha Senior High SchoolKununurra Kununurra District High SchoolMandurah Coodanup CollegePerth Balga Senior High School Cecil Andrews College Challis Community Primary School Clontarf Aboriginal College Girrawheen Senior High School Kiara College St Brigid’s College Swan View Senior High SchoolRoebourne Roebourne District High School

NORTHERN TERRITORY

Alice Springs Centralian Middle School Centralian Senior CollegeHumpty Doo Taminmin CollegePalmerston Palmerston College 7 - 9 Campus Palmerston College 10 - 12 Campus

NEW SOUTH WALES

Coonamble Coonamble High SchoolDubbo Dubbo College, Senior Campus Dubbo College, South Campus Dubbo College, Delroy CampusGunnedah Gunnedah High SchoolKempsey Kempsey High School Melville High SchoolMuswellbrook Muswellbrook High SchoolNarromine Narromine High SchoolOrange Canobolas Rural Technology High SchoolTamworth Oxley High School Tamworth High SchoolSingleton Singleton High School

QUEENSLAND

Barambah Cherbourg State School Murgon State High SchoolBundaberg Bundaberg State High School Bundaberg North State High School Kepnock State High SchoolHervey Bay Hervey Bay State High School Urangan State High SchoolMaryborough Aldridge State High School Maryborough State High School

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UPCOMING EVENTSThe second half of the year will be packed with excitement, with the official launches of three new Girls Academies - Barambah in Queensland, and Geraldton and Swan View in Western Australia.

Our new Academies have made a splash, featuring in the local news media and making a big impact in their schools. The official launches will be a great way to celebrate an excellent start for our program at Murgon, Cherbourg, Geraldton and Swan View schools.

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